Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/Tasks/Missing world record breakers

This is a list of missing athletes who have broken a world record in athletics. This focuses on IAAF-recognised outdoor world records after 1945 in standard events which have featured at a World Championship and/or Olympic programme. A total of 70 athletes were missing at creation on 1 October 2013.

Running

 * 100 m
 * Marie Mejzlíková II
 * Emmi Haux
 * Gundel Wittmann
 * Gertrud Gladitsch
 * Rowena Harrison


 * 200 m
 * Alice Cast


 * 400 m
 * Nancy Boyle
 * Polina Lazareva


 * 800 m
 * Georgette Lenoir
 * Yevdokia Vasilyeva
 * Valentina Pomogayeva


 * 1000 m
 * Edith Trickey


 * 1500 m
 * Anna Mushkina
 * Lydia Freiberg
 * Yevdokiya Vasilyeva
 * Anna Zaytseva-Bosenko
 * Yevdokiya Vasilyeva
 * Olga Ovsyannikova


 * Mile
 * Anne Oliver
 * Enid Harding
 * Edith Treybal
 * Brenda Cook


 * 3000 metres
 * Ana Cicanei
 * Leila Buckland
 * June Bridgland
 * Roberta Picco


 * 10,000 metres
 * Hannelore Middeke
 * Ann O'Brien
 * Kathy Gibbons
 * Loa Olafsson
 * Peg Neppel
 * Lyudmila Baranova
 * Raisa Sadreydinova

Walks

 * 10 km walk
 * Albertine Regel
 * Margit Lindström
 * Sandrah Holm
 * Birgit Frisk
 * May Holmén
 * Stina Lindberg
 * Sally Pierson
 * Young Juxu


 * 20 km walk
 * Vladimir Guk
 * Anatoliy Vedyakov
 * Vadim Tsvetkov
 * Bo Lingtang
 * Marie van Tonder
 * Irma Hansson
 * Karin Møller
 * Lilian Harpur
 * Sally Pierson


 * 50 km walk
 * Anatoliy Yegorov
 * Grigoriy Klimov
 * Anatoliy Vedyakov

Hurdles

 * 80 m hurdles
 * Eva von Bredow
 * Galina Yermolenko


 * 400 m hurdles
 * Tatyana Storosheva


 * 3000 m s'chase
 * Grigoriy Taran
 * Vladimir Dudin
 * Sara Heeb
 * Gracie Padilla
 * Karen Harvey

Field

 * High jump
 * Elizabeth Stine
 * Ilsebill Pfenning


 * Pole vault
 * Ruth Spencer
 * Hazel Hutaff
 * Emma Lee King
 * Lois Tatum
 * Eva Fisk
 * Mildred Carl
 * Elva Hintze
 * Helene Henneke
 * Yelena Goldobina
 * Zoya Romanova
 * Brenda Walker
 * Irene Spieker
 * Jana Edwards
 * Shao Jingmen
 * Zhou Minxin


 * Long jump
 * Christel Schulz


 * Triple jump
 * Elizabeth Stine
 * Adrienne Känel
 * Rie Yamaguchi
 * Terri Turner
 * Melody Smith
 * Easter Gabriel


 * Shot put
 * Ruth Lange


 * Discus throw
 * Yvonne Tembouret
 * Lisette Petré
 * Maria Vidlaková


 * Javelin throw
 * Božena Šrámková
 * Marie Janderová
 * Guschi Hargus
 * Anneliese Steinheuer


 * Heptathlon
 * Herbert Swoboda
 * Liesl Albert
 * Andrea Findeis
 * Tatyana Shpak
 * Nina Golovina
 * Yekaterina Gordiyenko